Bitcoin Conf is conveniently April 27-29 If you haven’t seen anything at the Sphere, I’d recommend this Show for the ages

Recap of the launch event for HRF's AI for Individual Rights program 🚀

Summary of HRF’s first round of AI for Individual Rights grants AI is a terrifying tool of control for totalitarians, but open-source, privacy protecting AI tools can be an even more powerful instrument of liberation We outnumber them! Next stop for HRF: Hack for Freedom hackathon in Austin on January 16-8 where we will pair 10 world-changing activists with teams of AI devs to build freedom tech tools 1 BTC in prizes. More info to come. Onwards and upwards 🫡

Just spent a few thrilling and energizing days with a killer group of people to launch HRF’s AI for Individual Rights program Authoritarians will absolutely use AI to repress… it’s up to us to ensure that individuals everywhere have access to secure and privacy-protecting AI tools that can fight back and protect and expand liberty in the 21st century 🫡

Even the liberal media knows Bitcoin will replace fiat

Kirkus Review for Check Your Financial Privilege (Laughing as some normie nocoiner book reviewer undertook this task) “A passionate if slightly overstated paean to the liberating possibilities of cybercurrency” I’ll take it! 😎

Today I learned that my essay “Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money” in the October edition of the Journal of Democracy is the most widely read/downloaded essay in the first 30 days of publication in the Journal’s entire 36-year history I think we are on to something 😎

Astounding interaction lmao

Killer setlist Apparently Let Down has become super popular with kids because of Tik Tok Hopeful for a North America tour 🤞

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New HRF report Research by Alex Li Many thanks to Presidio Bitcoin and Chaincode Labs for their work in this area Something big to think about for the future

The latest zcash lunacy This guy (who apparently works for and serves on the board of the company that runs zcash and launched its new VC wallet) went from (unprovoked) offering me a truce (?) to saying he would "end" me and calling me "evil" in 20 minutes flat Probably the most bizarre altcoin community

1 billion sats donated to: ✅ Decentralize mining ✅ Add privacy to Bitcoin transactions ✅ Expand Bitcoin education in dictatorships ✅ Improve nostr tools ✅ Grow the cashu ecosystem 🚀

Bitcoin Magazine

Human Rights Foundation Gives $1.1M To Bitcoin Projects

The Human Rights Foundation gave funding through its Bitcoin Development Fund, giving to 20 projects around the world.

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The x algo is so funny if you interact with one single zcash discussion your entire feed becomes a deluge of zcash shilling copypasta View quoted note →

The zcash people are the worst If we had listened to them, we would have ditched Bitcoin for a coin that has dropped in purchasing power by 98% against Bitcoin The worst part isn’t the premine or the PoS migration shenanigans, it’s the moralistic attitude that if you don’t use a coin that has perfect privacy (which zcash is not anyway) then you are putting people in danger When in reality living in fiat is dangerous If I had to assign blame it’s that many of them are computer scientists chasing perfect privacy with zero understanding of real world economies etc

Stone cold banger from the bird app

Sound on, volume up Let's go, eyes on the prize